, I believe, are still in the process of evolving and being fine-tuned. They have complex algorithms and learning theories associated with them. However, their growth has been tremendous and most of us have had a chance to use them in the form of some web service or an electronic product in the recent years. For example, speech recognition on Windows 7 and Windows 8 is quite decent. What interests me more is the voice command software on Windows Phone 8....

Of course, there’s no such thing as a free lunch. So you pay with information. Your own, personal information is the cost of free service. If you’re not willing to pay that price, Google does provide options to delete some of your data and in some places you can opt-out from the tracking altogether. As you’d expect, these options aren’t exactly advertised. Feeding the devil: Google might be the devil but it’s a productive and reliable one....

One of the common complaints about the Outlook app is the emails getting stuck in the outbox. This means emails aren’t sent out to the intended recipients and remain to be delivered. For such as situation, there are different fixes, and you can try them out. Check Connectivity The first thing to do is to check the connectivity status of MS Outlook and the mail server. Your email messages will remain in your outbox folder as long as the server is offline....

Though both phones sport pretty good cameras, one thing that left me surprised was the exclusion of 4K video recording in the Redmi Note 5 Pro, the pricier one. That exclusion intrigued us — the GT team —a lot. It got us thinking that if the Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 does have 4K, there must be some way to enable the same in the Redmi Note 5 Pro. After a little research, we learned that the camera hardware supports 4K, it was the software which was preventing us from recording in 4K....

In addition to giving an option to turn off comments, Instagram now lets you hide likes and view counts on your posts. This post will show you how to do exactly that. The best part is that this feature doesn’t require you to switch to a Professional account. Hide Instagram Likes and View Counts on iPhone and Android Though Instagram is a great tool of expression and communication, we have to agree that social media can sometimes take a toll on our mental health....

Spotify country restriction and started using it, but there were many restrictions imposed on a free account. Spotify can really nudge you or even irritate in some cases to buy the premium service. To be frank, I really wished to buy the premium service, but then my credit card was of an Indian bank. End of story! For these reasons, I switched back to Google Music. However, I was already hooked to Spotify and one of its features I missed the most in Google Music was integration of Last....

message compose and reply/forward interface . There was another one that integrated Google Drive more closely with Gmail . Well, the integration thing was a must because Outlook.com features a similar association with SkyDrive. With that in place, users have the capability to attach large files in email messages. However, there are many who prefer SkyDrive over Google Drive but use Gmail instead of Outlook.com. If you fall in this category, Google Drive integration with Gmail doesn’t help you....

Another such design is explaining an image through text. Not only can you choose what text to use for the picture, you can select where the text should reside, how big or small it should appear, and what color the overall design should consist of. The instructions below provide exactly how this is done. The steps are very precise and need to be followed perfectly to achieve the desired effect....

There are a few apps available which help you to back up data while switching phones. But the ones that are free requires a lot of manual work and the others that are hassle free always comes with a price tag. You might already be aware that Apple released an app called Move to iOS for anyone planning to switch from Android to iOS. The app focuses on transferring data from user’s Android device to a new iPhone running on iOS 9....

We have already seen an app called DataWiz for the task which still stands good, but today we will be taking up another promising app called My Data Manager which not only helps you with postpaid billing cycles, but also works with prepaid data packs. Let’s see how we can configure the app so that we never exceed our data plans and hence never end up with a giant bill....

Understanding User and Permission Passwords In the PDF spec, there are two kinds of passwords: User and Permission. A User password is just like a password for your PC. You need it to get in. If you don’t have it, tough luck big guy, you ain’t gettin in. Permission Passwords are more like admin passwords. With a user password, you can get in and maybe access a subset of the features, but you’re not allowed to move the furniture around....

With that, Microsoft has updated the interface of Windows 11. Apart from personalizing the Start Menu, you can customize the Lock screen too. This means that your previous lock screen customization settings have been reset when you updated to the new OS. However, the streamlined menus make personalizing your operating system easier than ever. Keep reading to see exactly how you can alter the look and functionality of your lock screen....

So, last weekend I was playing songs on my YouTube app at a gathering with my old pals, but something kept bugging me. As a force of habit, I end up locking my screen as soon as I put my phone away, which resulted in the song being paused. While I understand that being a video app, YouTube wants the screen to be active all the time and not sleep in the middle of a video, but at times you just wish to listen to your favourite song in the dark of the night or just lock your screen to conserve battery....

Why Your Mac Has the Problem in The First Place When you connect to a new wireless network, your Mac asks you by default if you want to remember the wireless network. Once you put in the password and successfully connects, your Mac will connect to the network the next time it sees it. Depending on your situation, that’s not a good idea. If you’re just trying to see if you can get connected to an open network, always uncheck Remember this network....

Whatever your reasons for wanting to record your screen with Zoom on your computer, the tool is much better than its competitors. For example, unlike Skype, where recordings disappear after 30 days, Zoom video recordings don’t go anywhere. Yes, you can record your screen with Zoom on Windows 10 and macOS. Of course, with the other person’s permission. You can use the Zoom screen recording feature to create video guides, tutorials, and more....

But of course, there’s need for more. Wouldn’t it be great if you take the basic map from Apple Maps and customize it? Say, save places you want to visit on the next vacation? Tag places around the city? Even share marked places with friends? Check out their saved places? I mean, planning the next outing or the process of moving to a new city would be just much easier, right?...

There are a few scenarios here. Let’s say you deleted the game folder from File Explorer just like any other file/folder on your computer. There is also a way to delete games from the Steam client itself. Either way, there are a few ways to restore that Steam game without downloading everything again. Let’s begin. 1. Restore Deleted Steam Game Folder from Trash Let’s assume that you’ve merely deleted the games folder and it still sits in your computer’s Recycle Bin....

Slight changes in the Settings menu bought me some extra hours of battery life, yet it was by no means perfect. The main culprit was still looming large and that was in the form of the display. For those who are unaware, the display takes up more battery juice than any other resource in an Android phone. In the case of the Galaxy S9 or S9 Plus, the default bright white theme does more harm than good to the battery life....

I love to watch movies on my laptop at night with a tub of popcorn. And a major issue I face while watching a movie is the volume. As I prefer to watch these movies late at night, I have to be sure that I am not disturbing anyone with the loud volume. However, these movies never maintain the volume. The volume goes all soft when two people are talking but in scenes involving violence, the same volume can wake up everyone nearby....

The first browser to come out with private browsing was Apple’s Safari 2.0 in 2005. Well, three years later, Google Chrome 1.0 came out with Incognito mode. Then, it was a series of browsers adding this feature one after another. Like in 2009, Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 and Mozilla Firefox 3.5 came out with their versions of private browsing. Although, the method to create an Incognito mode shortcut differs slightly for each browser, the method is comparatively straightforward....